Reason #720,426 that I love my husband.

 

I’m a Twilight fan.

 

There… I’ve said it… Out loud (bonus points if you got the reference).

 

I’ll be honest, I’ve been a Harry Potter fan since the beginning (there was a reason I wanted to go to the park) but I really resisted reading the Twilight books.  However, I was doing some work in a few middle schools and rather than age out, I figured I would sell out and figure out what all the hype was about (look, I’m rapping!) and why at least 2/3 of any given class had one of the four books on their desk.  Truth of the matter is?  I ripped through the friggin things in less than two weeks.  That’s 2,443 pages of vampire goodness (“you can Google it”).  That’s right… a book series that I mocked for months turned into my own personal brand of heroin (let’s see how many Twi-references I can put in to one post).  Within two months I had read all four books a second time and was mocked at least 10 times that amount by my loving husband (for the record, I think I may be pulling an Alice and predicting re-read #5 in the near future). First of all, he doesn’t really understand the whole reading thing anyways.  I think the last substantial thing that he read (aside from work-related documents) was the Hallmark aisle when he had to buy me a Birthday card in January.  Reading?  Not his thing.  Then I bribed sucked him into watching the movies (no vampire pun intended).  And I think he might have considered divorcing me for wasting precious hours of his life.

 

 

I’ve been cheated out of a proper marriage.

 

What makes him the GREATEST husband in the world (considering Edward is, indeed, a magical figure) is his absolutely phenomenal ability to throw my Twilight obsession back into my face at the drop of a hat.  The nights where he’s absolutely freezing cold and trying to warm his icicle hands on my back?  “Edward’s hands are ice cold and you say you like them!”  Damn it.  Caught at my own game.

 

Ummm… this guy looks NOTHING like Edward.  I’d be terrified too.

 

After VERY patiently (and quietly) sitting through a viewing of Eclipse, he sat straight up as soon as the credits started rolling and began berating the film and even pointing out that “there were definitely scenes with sun in them and Edward didn’t sparkle and he’s SUPPOSED to sparkle… this movies sucks.”  I literally burst out laughing.  What a good sport he is.

 

At this point, I can’t even hide my ridiculousness.  I went to Blockbuster and bought several DVDs for cheap (I’m talking 4 movies and some candy for less than 10 bucks) including “The Yellow Handkerchief” and it took him all of 5 seconds to realize that I “only bought this movie because it has that chick from Twilight in it” and he wondered if I “really think she’s a good actress???  she’s awful.”  Yep.  He’s got me pegged.

 

However, the absolute best Twilight reference he has EVER made came about 3 days ago.  He was on “dog duty” (meaning he had to cut his work-aholic day shorter than mine) and when I walked in and saw him reading my blog again I said, “haven’t you already read that post?” and without skipping a beat, he simply said, “yeah… but it’s kind of like a Twilight book.”

 

God, I love him.

 

Maybe I’ll have to re-think this reward.

 

Is he going to go see Breaking Dawn with me at midnight on November 18th?  Definitely not.  Will he watch it with me after I beg (and bribe) him to once it’s on DVD?  Yes… but he’ll complain the whole way through.  Does he put up with my absurdity?  Absolutely.  And for that reason alone, I am unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

I’m Team John (although I have a t-shirt saying otherwise).

 

And I can’t say that I haven’t had any influence over my family members and friends… let’s just say I’m not the only one who’s a little a lot obsessed (hi cousins!).  Why is it that this series of books has taken a group of (relatively) grounded ADULT women and turned them into a bunch of squealing pre-teens who are lusting over a 107 17 year old vampire?  And how is that at ALL appropriate?

 

At least we don’t have monthly meetings.

 

Hey… it keeps us young at heart.  After all, some of us are going to be 30 soon.

 

For the record, the number of official twi-references equals six.  Winning!  Ok, THAT was a Charlie Sheen reference.  That’s a whole different brand of heroin.

 

You are a terrible actress — I’d say that career path is out for you.  ~ Edward Cullen (what my husband would say about the “real life” Bella)